On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:10:09PM -0700, Jeff Boyce wrote: > Greetings - > > I had a logical volume that was running out of space on a virtual machine. > I successfully expanded the LV using lvextend, and lvdisplay shows that it > has been expanded. Then I went to expand the filesystem to fill the new > space (# resize2fs -p /dev/vde1) and I get the results that the filesystem > is already xx blocks long, nothing to do. If I do a # df -h, I can see that > the filesystem has not been extended. I could kick the users off the VM, > reboot the VM using a GParted live CD and extend the filesystem that way, > but I thought that it was possible to do this live and mounted? The RH docs > say this is possible; the man page for resize2fs also says it is possible > with ext4. What am I missing here? This is a Centos 6.2 VM with an ext4 > filesystem. The logical volumes are setup on the host system which is also > a Centos 6.2 system. Try resize4fs (assuming your FS is ext4). Ray